Electricity generation companies (GenCos), comprising gas-fired and hydro stations, said they released an average of 3,226 megawatts/hour of electricity into the national grid on Saturday. The information was contained in a daily energy report by the Advisory Power Team, office ...
Read More »Army foiling Boko Haram’s deceitful mission in North East, commander declares
The Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi, has declared that the dream of the Boko Haram sect to establish a caliphate in the North East had met a brick wall in the past decade, as the military ...
Read More »Nigerian Embassy in Benin not attacked, FG clarifies
The Federal Government has dismissed a video clip making the rounds that the Nigerian Embassy in Cotonou, Benin Republic had been attacked. A spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ferdinand Nwonye, refuted the claim yesterday in a statement in ...
Read More »Oil marketers seek inclusion in downstream automation panel
The Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has called for the expanded membership of the inter-agency committee on downstream automation with full recognition of its members. IPMAN Chairman, Kano Unit, comprising Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Bauchi and Yobe states, Alhaji Bashir ...
Read More »Abuja council gets ultimatum to revoke life pensions for former government officials
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has written the chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Abdullahi Adamu Candido, imploring him to “urgently withdraw and revoke the bill/edict for the unconstitutional and illegal payment of life pensions to former ...
Read More »Fayemi begs workers to drop minimum wage strike, insists increase not total pay review
Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi has appealed to workers to shelve their planned nation-wide strike to protest against non-implementation of the new national minimum wage, saying such action would amount to an effort in futility. Fayemi, who is also chairman ...
Read More »VC orders immediate suspension of student for alleged cultism
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Cross River State, Professor Zana Akpagu, has approved the immediate suspension of one Obio, Godswill Okon of the Department of Physical Oceanography over alleged cult activities. Obio, who is a fourth-year student with registration ...
Read More »Lawyer cautions Ayade against retrenchment, fresh employment in C’River
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ntufam Mba Ekpezu Ukweni, has cautioned Cross River State Governor Ben Ayade against employing fresh workers and retrenchment of employees in the state as polling agents. The governor threatened to sack some workers whom ...
Read More »Tokarczuk, Handke win 2018, 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature
Polish author, Olga Tokarczuk, and Austria’s Peter Handke have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for 2019 and 2018 as the prize was not awarded last year. Olga Tokarczuk, who was 10/1 and Peter Handke, 20/1, upset bookmakers’ prediction ...
Read More »A’Ibom IPAC cautions members against issuing unofficial statements
The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), Akwa Ibom State chapter, has expressed disappointment over a statement credited to its Publicity Secretary, Reverend Aniebet Emmanuel that the council has a pending case of alleged financial misappropriation. It, therefore, cautioned its members against ...
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